We all want to be happier and healthier in the New Year, but getting there can be a bit elusive (or totally daunting). Here are a few simple (and science-backed) ways to be kinder to yourself and others in 2016.

Did you know that with regular meditation, you could attain the qualities of the Christmas Tree – an evergreen smile, sharp focus like its sharp leaves, and a perfect balance? So keep meditating and become a Christmas tree yourself!

We often reflect about our lives as we scroll through our social media accounts. If you’re wondering where your life is headed, at some point you’ll inevitably reach the ‘destiny vs. free will’ stop.

It is no secret that meditation is beneficial for our mental and physical health. However, knowledge of whether something is good or bad for our health is rarely incentive enough to change our stubborn habits.

Mindfulness is quickly following yoga in becoming a billion-dollar industry. It’s no surprise, then, that the popularity of meditation is also growing among CEOs and senior executives. Why are business leaders embracing meditation rather than, say, massage or ping-pong? Because there’s something to meditation that appears to benefit CEOs more than recreation or relaxation do alone.

Wisdom 2.0 addresses the great challenge of our age: to not only live connected to one another through technology, but to do so in ways that are beneficial to our own well-being, effective in our work, and useful to the world.

The ultimate goal for some of us is happiness. Are you happy yet? Happiness is often contradicted and taken for granted. The science behind what really makes us happy is no surprise with 40 percent of our daily activities making up our happiness levels.